Chapter: 502

“Please speak comfortably.”

As the Count came out to the terrace, he continued, “I am not worthy of receiving this courtesy from Your Majesty the Empress.”

“I am not yet the Empress.”

The Count looked around the temple. Through the glass door, there is Theor with Kaizen.

“The prince is mature even at a young age.”

Theor stood quietly, looking up at the people talking to him.

He seemed a little confused because there were so many people, but he didn’t look scared.

The Count looked at Theor with great respect and continued, “The prince’s calm personality seems to resemble you, Lady Astelle.”

“He must resemble His Majesty.”

Kaizen was not a calm person, but Astelle said so out of courtesy.

In this situation, it was polite to say humbly that he resembled the emperor.

Moreover, this man was the emperor’s man.

The Count smiled as if he had read Astelle’s thoughts.

He also seemed to think that Kaizen and calm did not go well together.

“You really resemble your mother a lot, Lady Astelle.”

“Do you know my mother?”

As soon as she asked the question, she thought that he knew her mother well, of course, since he was her maternal grandfather’s lieutenant.

Count Ecklen looked at her for a moment and then answered, “Yes, we were friends.”

“You were my mother’s friend?”

Astelle thought it would be a relationship between a young lieutenant and the daughter of a superior.

She was surprised to hear the word ‘friend’.

In an instant, a deep regret passed through the Count’s eyes, as if recalling the past.

“It’s a bit impolite to say that I was your mother’s friend. We were close because we were the same age.”

“I see.”

The Count spoke as if it was nothing. But it sounded like a pretty close relationship.